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Ajahn Chah has 82 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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There are two kinds of suffering. There is the suffering you run away from, which follows you everywhere. And there is the…
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The ultimate truth is like the flavour of an apple which you can't see with the eye or hear with the ear.…
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When sitting in meditation, say, "That's not my business!" with every thought that comes by.
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Meditation is like a single log of wood. Insight and investigation are one end of the log; calm and concentration are the…
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Practicing meditation is just like breathing. While working we breathe, while sleeping we breathe, while sitting down we breathe... Why do we…
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Do everything with a mind that lets go. Do not expect praise or reward.
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When we see beyond self, we no longer cling to happiness. And when we stop clinging, we can begin to be happy.
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Only one book is worth reading: the heart.
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These days people don't search for the Truth. People study simply in order to find knowledge necessary to make a living, raise…
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Mindfulness is life. Whenever we don’t have mindfulness, when we are heedless, it’s as if we are dead.
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Peace is within oneself to be found in the same place as agitation and suffering. It is not found in a forest…
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Whenever we feel that we are definitely right, so much so that we refuse to open up to anything or anybody else,…
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If you've got somebody's aspects in your experience that you don't like, there's only one reason they're there. You keep evoking them…
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Then one day, we’ll put the reward in the old place, and put in the rat, and, by golloy, the old habit…
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To observe and watch one's own mind is something really interesting. The untrained mind will run and follow its old habit patterns.…
— Ajahn Chah
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To understand a new idea, break an old habit.
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Everything seems fine until you're about 40. Then something is definitely beginning to go wrong. And you look in the mirror with…
— Martin Amis
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It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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For a while there, I was a stringer. The expression comes from the old habit of stringing together the column inches that…
— Charles Kuralt
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From old habit, unconsciously he thanked God that he no longer believed in Him.
— W. Somerset Maugham
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Though I do not believe in the order of things, still the sticky little leaves that come out in the spring are…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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There is no hurry anywhere else except in your mind. If you really want to be in a state of peace and…
— Ritu Ghatourey
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